Sliding door



(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

O. D. PEY.

SLIDING DOOR.

No. 431,570. Patented July 8,1890.

2 Sheets-Sheet 2. UJD. PEY.

SLIDING DOOR.

(No Model.)

No. 431,570 PatentedJu-ly 8, 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHRISTIAN D. FEY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SLIDING DOOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters ratent No. 431,570, dated July 8,1890.

Application filed March 12 1890.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, CHRISTIAN D. FEY, a citizen of the United States ofAmeriea,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State ofIllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inSliding-Door Hangers, of which the following is a specification,reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

Heretofore hangers for parlor sliding doors have generally been madeeach with two wheels riding upon double rails,which double rails fromthe uneven settling of the house have frequently been moved out of linewith each other, whereby the track-wheels, with the heavy doorssuspended'thereto, following such uneven rails were swung out of theirtrue vertical positions, and therefrom, being on twisted positionsrelative to their journalbearings, have been causing so much impedimentfrom frictional contact that it has been very hard work, and sometimesan impossibility, to move such doors; and it is the object of this myinvention to provide a device by which a single rail only will berequired, and in which the wheels are journaled in hangers extendingthrough a verynarrow slot in the upper frame, with the door suspendedthereto in a manner to be vertical on a central line with such wheelsfor enabling the attachment of the hanger devices to the edges of suchdoor, with provision for-a vertical adj ustment, and in which also thehangers can' be lifted off their rail for removing the door withoutdisconnecting such hangers by simply removing one of the ceiling-boardsof the door-frame; and with these objects in view my invention consistsof the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter de scribedand specifically claimed."

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents anelevation of theupper portion of a door as suspended to hangers; Fig. 2, an end or edgeview of the same with the door frame in section, and Fig. 3 a similarview of the hanger and rail on an enlarged scale. Figs. 4, 5, and 6represent side elevations and an edge view of modifications.

Corresponding letters of reference in the several figures of thedrawings designate like parts.

A and B denote two side beams above the Serial No. 348,669. (No modal.)

door-opening, upon each of which are secured scantlings a, which, withthe plastering b,will form a double wall. Against the inward face ofbeam A is secured a beam C of greater width, upon which and upon a strip0, spiked against the seantlings a, is secured a cap- C and the strip Dbeing with their bottom edges on the same level. The strip D is rabbetedon its upper inward corner, and against it is secured a flat iron railE, projecting with its upper edge above the rabbet of strip D. This railE extends the entire distance the door or doors mayoccupy while beingopened or closed.

Upon the rail E will ride the wheels F, each grooved in its rim toprovide side flanges lapping over the corners of such rail, and eachwheel F has journals f projecting from each slot of a barg. The ends ofthe slotted bars g are secured to be parallel with and opposite eachother against the inward faces of the two parallel shanks ofhanger-yokes G and II, the connecting portion between the two shanks ofeach yoke being semicircular to clear the peripheries of wheels F. Oneshank of each yoke G being elongated downward it has formed to its lowerend a rectangular eyelug h for securinga bolt I by its head resting ontop of lug h, and by a nut i, screwed on such bolt against the bottomface of lug it. Each such bolt I is passed through two eyelugs j and 7cof a plate J, rigidly secured by wood-screws against one end of the doorK, that is to be suspended, with the plates J, for the meeting edges ofdouble doors or for the of the door-frame secured in recesses cut insuch door edges for the projecting lugs j and 70 to be flush with thedoor edge, and upon the bottom end of each bolt I is screwed a nut Z tobutt against lug 70 for supporting the door K to be verticallyadjustableon such bolts. These bolts I thus being verticallyin line with thewheels and the lugs j 70 being central of the door edge, the door willbe suspended centrally to the wheels and rail. Against the longer shanksof the two yokes Gr thus secured to the opposite edges of a door K issecured by bolts (1 a bar L, connecting the board (1, and against theinward face of beam C is fixed a strip D, all the beams A, B, and

edge of a single door to meet the jamb-liningside, each journal f movingin a longitudinal same, and against this bar L are secured.

again by bolts the longer shanks of the intermediate yokes'H, and forthe purpose of making this bar suitable for different width of doors thebar L may have punched a series of holes for coupling yokes G and H. Bythis I arrangement, as will be readily seen, the elevation of the door Kcan be adjusted from bothedges of such. door, and no fastenings for thesuspension of the same are required to be fixed to the door intermediateof its side edges. For very wide and thick doors the bar L would have tobe very heavy fiat iron,which would add more weight than desirable, inwhich case I can make the hanger-yokes for each wheel F, both alike, andwhile I suspend the door K to the yokes G in the same manner as beforedescribed I use for the intermediates yokes G a shorter bolt I. Thebottom of the yoke G in this case is entered in a mortise m in the topedge of the door, with a washer n placed in the bottom of such mortise,and another mortise o, I cut in one side of the upper portion of thedoor K. Then I bore a hole from mortisem to mortise 0 for bolt 1, whichwill also pass through a washer p in mortise 0, against which the nut Zwill butt, and then Iclose the mortise 0 byaplate (1 let in the wood tobe flush with the face of the door, and to be removably secured bywood-screws r, all as shown by Fig. 4:.

For light common doors, I can use for each Wheel F a single yoke Gfinwhich, upon a bolt 8, passed through holes in both shanks of such yoke,is loosely pivoted the wheel F, as shown by Figs. 5 and 6, theconnection with the door K of such yoke G being made similar to thedevice shown by Fig. 4.

The ceiling-boards t and u of the door-frame 1. In a door-hanger, and incombination with rigid single rails E,wheels F, riding upon such rail,and hanger-yokes G, supported on such wheels and having to their longershanks rectangular eye-lugs h for coupling bolts I, to be vertically inline with wheels F, and such bolts I being connected with the door forvertical adjustment to be on an edge wise central line therewith,substantially as set forth.

2. In a-door-hanger, and in'combinationr with the rigid single rail E,wheels F, riding upon such rail, and each provided with journals f,moving in slotted bars 9, each pair of such .bars g being securedbetween two hanger-yokes G and H, the yokes G having longer shanksconnected with the ends of the door, and both yokes G of a door beingconnected by a bar L, and both yokes H, intermediate of yokes Gr, beingsecured to such bar L, all substantially as set forth, for the purposespecified.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHRISTIAN D. 'FEY.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM 1-]. L012, OTTO LUEBKERT.

